Callum Akehurst-Ryan

Building a quality culture from zero a case study I was brought into an organisation that had no dedicated quality function and tasked with improving quality engineering to support faster releases.

Start with the risks, not the method Back in 2022 I wrote a test approach for my team and it was terrible… just boilerplate process that didn’t speak to what the team needed.

I was an AI sceptic (and I’ve got the old blog posts to prove it) There’s a certain type of blog post going around at the moment, the one where a tester explains how AI won them over.

Why did testing miss this… Because You didn’t set a risk appetite!

Yes you can run exploratory testing with ai AI can actually run your exploratory testing… it just needs some help deciding what’s worth exploring, what good enough looks like and when to stop.

Change Failure Rate and AI Adoption: What Your DORA Dashboard Misses You might have a DORA dashboard… but are you getting half the story?

AI readiness radar Hot take: AI isn’t going to save your dysfunctional engineering team… it’s going to expose it.

An example abstract for conference talks In this post I’m sharing an old abstract of mine for a conference talk that was selected.

Creating a Playwright framework with AI TL;DR Built a Playwright E2E test framework using Claude Code, covering ~100% of high-priority workflows.

You don’t want Quality Engineers Foreword This is a guest blog by Luke Lattimer-Rogers Luke is a quality advocate, a fantasy book author and a kick-ass dungeons and dragons player!